Brent's Thoughts

Well, a few things have went down since the last few journal entries. I have purchased an Xbox. For those of you that think I hate Microsoft this may come as a shock to you, but there are a couple of reasons why I have gotten one. First I am going to continue with the Linux only on Diablo, so I need something to play games on and I am tired of having to fight with buggy hardware drivers in Windows and all of that garbage. Second I see the most hack-ability..er… growth potential for this platform. Next issue, today I whacked my whole public_html luckly I had a backup copy. Now less than 30 seconds ago I just deleted the entry in my journal for 2002-1-22 and replaced it with this one. DAMNIT!! I don’t think I am going to be able to get that back. I have to go to Bloomington Il to show off a creation of mine to the big wigs in AFNI. It is more an attempt to get them to accept Linux and let me use it. I am not sure if I am going to be happy with this or not. Well I guess I need to find a way to re create the previous entry.

Not having written in here for a bit, I would commonly start with a catch up of things that have happened since the previous entry. Today I cannot do that though, because I have just found out that my Aunt Rose has passed away. I have mentioned her in previous entries if you would like the information refer to those entries. I would like to take this space on my electronic journal to say thanks to her for everything that she did for me and everything that she did for everyone else. In one way I am happy for her to have passed on for I think the last few monthes have been quite painful for her and I am happy that she has been relieved of that pain, but in the other aspects of my life I grieve for the loss of her life. I cannot put into words the things that she has done to help me and the things that she has done with kindness to me. I think that perhaps she is one of the few people in my life that has never EVER uttered a harsh word in my direction. I hope that she is in a happier place than this and that she knows that I will miss her. The day has turned rainy and I wonder if that is not the worlds tears for the loss of this person. There is no place that could be good enough for her. Rest in peace Rose Parrish.

Well I have been trying to start off the year right these last few years and to do this it means driving up to Indiana for some R&R and a little kicking of the Highland High School Swim Team’s collective ass. This year the alumni smoked them in not only the waterpolo portion, but also beat them in the relays. I spent the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before the new year up there with Jim and his wife. Pauline went with me as well. It was nice to get to spend some time with them and me and Jim spent some time beating the crap out of each other in “Dead or Alive 2: Extreme” for the PSX 2 and “Test Drive 4: Off Road” as well. It was a blast. It was also nice to get to see some of the other alumni. I stopped and saw my grandmother for a bit and showed them how to do a couple things with their computer on Monday and got to eat some chicken and noodles. Pauline has also been on this cooking kick here lately so she got the recipe from my grandmother and is going to try to make the noodles. I hope she gets it because those things are very very good.